A recent New York Times article, Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting, resumed the debate over whether laptops and other digital devices should be banned from classrooms, and if ...

Good note taking skills start before the class begins. It is important to read all the required assignments ahead of time. Lectures are designed to supplement the reading assignments, not replace them ...

Man, it’s a great time to be a note-taker. For a couple of decades—first as a student, then as a professional journalist—I filled notebook after notebook with notes, covering classes, press ...

From freemium apps that charge subscription fees for additional features to FOSS solutions that can be hosted on your local hardware, the software landscape is riddled with applications designed to ...

If you ever endured a long lecture or an hours-long all-hands meeting, you know this to be true: There’s no way you can jot down every single word your professor or colleague utters. Rather than ...

Warsaw, Poland—Those who have trouble seeing the board in class may no longer have to worry. ASU students David Hayden and Andrew Kelley created a device that helps those with low vision see a ...

Take one look around the lecture hall, and you’re hit with a sea of students buried in their screens and notebooks. Some opt for laptops, rapidly typing away at their keyboards as the professor ...

Just about every professor has complained about students with screens in front of them flitting over to Facebook or Tumblr instead of listening to a lecture. But, those distractions aside, it’s hard ...